![]() ![]() We barely pulled it off at all, we had a month to learn all the songs and retrain a whole new band to play as a professional touring band which is no small feat. Afterwards, we got Chase Becker on guitar which completed the lineup, we did the tour with EXMORTUS‘ Conan on guitar to save our bacon pretty much. And Jesse Sanchez joined too and did that tour with us. Then, we had another makeshift lineup in 2015 that bailed on us right before our tour with ENFORCER in 2016 which kind of led to the lineup we have now because Carlos Cruz rejoined and saved us from having to drop off the tour altogether because here we have a drummer who can play the material and knows the songs. The band literally collapsed before the release of Empire Collapse and we did both the tours, to some extent, with makeshift lineups that myself and Adam Carroll had to put together. John: Well I had to remake it twice in order to get between there and here. It’s been four years since IV: Empire Collapse, how has the band progressed in that time? ![]() Each song is going to have it’s little moment and by the end of the record it moves off the aggressive machine gun to the face sound and gets to something that is more desolate and sad. We tried to have interesting songs with atypical structures beyond verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, verse, chorus. There’s also some traditional heavy/speed type of stuff as well, but it’s all put in a super aggressive package. It is super aggressive, really crushing and based around the influences of classic thrash metal but pushing it forward with a lot of death, black and extreme metal influences as well. John: Well, I believe it is the most highly evolved, aggressive and overall best WARBRINGER album to date. What can fans expect from the upcoming album? So your fifth studio album, Woe To The Vanquished, is set for release at the end of March. We caught up with frontman and founding member John Kevill to lift the lid on the brand new album, including its themes and concepts, alongside extensively discussing the band’s expansive soundscape, the current state of thrash metal and why WARBRINGER refuse to be written off as another typical thrash metal band. ![]() Numerous lineup changes haven’t deterred the band and this year sees the band’s momentum hitting a new level. Now, thirteen years after their explosive entry, the landscape of metal has changed and the band are preparing to unleash their most ambitious record to date, Woe To The Vanquished. When the new wave of thrash metal exploded onto the world in the early 2000s, Californian thrashers WARBRINGER were at the forefront as the new wave took the metal world by storm. ![]()
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